The Telegraph and Mail should stop buying DWP briefings hook, line and sinker
People leave housing benefit all the time, but the DWP managed to turn no news into good newsThis morning the Telegraph and Mail ran stories claiming the the government’s benefit cap was already...
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Unemployment is still too high – so why don't people care?
Unemployment of 7.8% ought to have people in the streets. Yet the only thing we hear is a collective sigh of indifference.For more than three years, unemployment has been at levels we haven’t seen...
View ArticleThe missing dimension of poverty: stigma
The experience of the social stigma around poverty is real, measurable and crucial.The government’s consultation on developing a new measure of child poverty closes today. Their argument for moving...
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The rise in housing benefit is driven by a rise in need. No more, no less
It's not greed, it's not fraud, it's just more people needing help to live their lives, writes Declan Gaffney.It’s safe to say that housing benefit has few defenders on any side of the political...
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Think before you retweet: why the "scrounger spike" is illusory
What happened between 2004 and 2010 is more people started writing about welfare.This chart seems to have quickly acquired mythological status on Twitter:It appears to show the number of times the word...
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What we talk about when we talk about welfare
It's not actually clear what "welfare" is, writes Declan Gaffney.Here's a chart that illustrates something which is relevant both to welfare and public finance, two of my pet subjects. I want to use it...
View ArticleThe government needs to stop ignoring the social disaster of women deserts
The Centre for Applied Data Torture reports.In an as yet unreleased report – which was nonetheless the subject of a feature on Newsnight on Monday – the Centre for Social Justice draws attention to the...
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